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MISSION STATEMENT

AHEC exists to foster closer business ties among Americans of
Hungarian ethnicity, through programs to bring them into contact
with each other, and with other Hungarians and business executives
everywhere. AHEC seeks to mutually advance and strengthen American-Hungarian
business relationships.

Budapest has welcomed those attending the 17th FINA World Championships in the course of a gigantic multidisciplinary performance involving approximately 700 artists, 220 volunteers and young athletes taking place on four floating barges of 1600 tons in the heart of Budapest. The spectacular show -worthy of an international sporting event- was followed by millions of viewers worldwide showcasing Hungarian culture and attractions of the city.

June 18, 2017 - Budapest: The Best Place To Shoot Your Movie

Hungary is an experienced player in Europe’s movie incentives game. One of the first former Eastern Bloc countries (in 2004) to introduce generous tax incentives, it has progressively increased the amount available to up to 30 percent or eligible productions. Officially recognized by the European Audiovisual Observatory for the boost its incentives give to film production — between 2010 and 2013, movie spending in Hungary accounted for on average 0.15 percent of GDP, double that of the U.K. and France — national film fund managers are expecting $200 million in incoming production spending this year alone. A new statutory commitment by the government to maintain a 14 billion forints (about $50 million) deposit account to ensure money is available to be paid out for approved tax rebates is the latest tool to keep Hungarian studios, crews and locations busy with international productions. "There is confidence and trust toward the Hungarian film industry and its representatives from filmmakers and producers worldwide," says Agnes Havas, CEO of the Hungarian Film Fund.

May 30, 2016 - The Széchenyi Bath Is the International Thermal Bath of the Year

The historic Hungarian Széchenyi Bath won the ‘International thermal medical bath of the year’ award at the International Medical Travel Journal’s gala dedicated to medical tourism awards.

February 13, 2017 - Karpatalja Tisza Forras

Please download to view the Power Point presentation with music (7.3MB) >>>

The Global Forum (since 1992) has been an internationally recognized think-tank for exchange and networking among governments at national, regional & local levels, private & public organizations, research & development experts and private sector companies. The Global Forum has been so successful at connecting international and innovative leaders, they are introducing the Global Innovation Start-up Competition (GISCO), which will be connect startups representing a wide range of industries and countries with champions in the industry. GISCO will feature Silicon Valley- EU- and US based jurors who will evaluate startup candidates and will award the top three competitors significant resources and assistance required to take their fledgling business to the next level.

Global Innovation Start-up Competition (GISCO) information, registration and discounted pricing for our partners can be found at the link below. Entry to this competition will provide access to the Global Forum as well. https://www.activemedia.com/global-forum-2016

Sincerely,
Laszlo Horvath

August 2, 2016 - AHEC Meeting Budapest, Hungary

Dear AHEC Members and Friends,

PLEASE JOIN US AT 6:00 pm on August 2, 2016. Laszlo Horvath is going to lead the meeting.

March 31 & April 1, 2016 - Opportunities for Bay Area Companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Events Summary:
In 2014, California exported 173.8 billion in goods and services to foreign markets.. California is open to trade with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) and currently, it is the third largest U.S state exporter of goods to the GCC. However, international trade between California and the GCC has significant room to grow. For example, less than one percent of California agricultural products go the GCC. In addition, GCC countries are seeking to diversify their hydrocarbon-based revenue and want U.S.-based companies to enter their economies in sectors such as information technology, renewable energy, and healthcare. As these markets continue to mature, businesses in California can increase their international footprint by becoming partners in this diversification process.

On March 31, 2016 , we will bring Embassy officials and regional experts together in San Francisco for an event at K&L Gates for companies to actively participate in learning about these six countries and determining where business opportunities may be in their respective industries.

November 10, 2015 - Country Commercial Guides
Streamlined Export Tool Puts U.S. Businesses on the Front Line of Market Research

With more than 95 percent of the world's consumers outside of the United States, area businesses and U.S. companies—particularly small and medium-sized firms—now have a new, streamlined export tool at their fingertips to help leverage export opportunities with the new 2015 Country Commercial Guides.

The Country Commercial Guides, written by boots-on-ground trade professionals at U.S. Embassies and Consulates abroad, are now easier than ever to use:

Each of the 124 Country Commercial Guides contains roughly 70 articles, for a total of more than 8,800 articles for the world.

Find opportunities more quickly in not only popular markets, but also in many other less crowded markets.

Tap directly into targeted country information readable on smart phones and tablets.

By the end of 2015, the system will enable users to receive dozens of multiple country readouts for specific industry searches such as:

#CCGuidesTo access the new Country Commercial Guides, visit www.export.gov/ccg and follow hashtag #CCGuides on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Businesses are encouraged to follow up on their market research efforts through the worldwide U.S. Commercial Service; a network of more than 100 U.S. offices and locations in U.S. Embassies and Consulates in over 75 countries.

June 17, 2015 - Budapest Air ShowThis is absolutely amazing! The helicopter shots are unreal. Great views of a beautiful city!

APRIL 7, 2015, 12-1:30 PM SPRING NETWORKING LUNCH OF THE HUNGARIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (HACC)
WITH MR. PAL DANYI

Oracle Plaza Restaurant, 10 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA, (Parking Twin Dolphin @ Lagoon Drive). Lunch is cafeteria style, but please RSVP for table reservation.
Our special guests from Hungary will be MR. PAL DANYI, CEO, PALPRICES.COM, a new online travel budget planning tool (www.palprices.com), an intelligent trip budget calculator website for budget conscious travelers, which is a great supplement feature for existing travel services. They focus on students and families with small children, as well as international student associations and exchange programs. Revenue is coming from affiliate marketing. He wants to meet with online travel brands to discuss partnership opportunities and investors to build up the business.
Mr. Danyi has worked 20 years as an expert and executive in different IT areas in Budapest, San Francisco and Germany. Currently he is an entrepreneur as well as a university professor of information management and entrepreneurship, also focusing on partnership between brands and startups.
RSVP/QUESTIONS :
Eva E.Voisin, Esq., Founder & President,
HACC In the US, Inc.,Connecting the Hungarian & American Businesses Community With Silicon Valley Since 1990
Direct 650.573.7351 * Mobile 650.440.0095 evoisin@ix.netcom.com

February 17, 2015 - Book by Laszlo Karolyi

A successful business executive helps to propel your business forward by sharing the success and mistakes he's learned over a thirty-year career.
Details online: www.karolyibs.com

January 26, 2015 - BUSINESS CARD EXCHANGE

If you are in San Diego next week, please come by for an hour long informal networking event of the American Hungarian Executive Circle, meeting in Rancho Bernardo:

INVITATION - The Harvard Club of Hungary,The American-Hungarian Executive Circle as well as
KÜRT Co.!

Dear AHEC members,

Cordially invite You, as precious Member of the Harvard Club Hungary to an
Exclusive Site Visit & Personal Discussion with Sándor KürtiFounder and President of KÜRT Information Management Company
Date: October 13 (Monday), 2014 – 18:00-20:00
From bringing crashed servers back to life for banks, to finding evidence of criminal activity on smashed hard drives for the police, KÜRT has built an international reputation for working magic on damaged computer systems and has become one of the world's top three companies in the niche business of data recovery. Today the company serves more Fortune 500 companies - "at least 100"- than it has employees.
KÜRT has offered its data recovery capacity for free for victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the East-Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the New Orleans Hurricane of August 2005 and for the Victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
On October 13, 2014 You will be offered a unique insight behind the scenes of data recovery on site of KÜRT. During the guided visit you will be able to see the clean room laboratory where the engineers of the company recover data from physically injured software data sources.
The Evening will be closed by an
Informal Reception with Snacks & Fingerfood

Hungary's Team Puli is one of 22 teams around the world competing for the Google Lunar XPrize. The Google Lunar XPrize is a $30 million competition, the grand prize for which is awarded to the first privately funded team registered with the competition, to send a robot to the Moon.

There is an annual summit at which all the active teams meet and network with each other and with their sponsors, vendors and other interested parties. The 2012 Summit was held in Washington, DC, and the 2013 Summit in Santiago de Chile. The next GLXP Team Summit is expected to be held in April or May 2014, and Hungary's Team Puli is trying to have it held in Budapest. Team Puli plans to conduct a full scale simulation and test of its Lunar Surface Mission at or around the time of this Summit.

Team Puli estimates that it needs to raise US$60,000 to cover the cost of the event.

Please support Team Puli – Visit its website at www.pulispace.com to learn more about its activities or see the details below: USD:

As a child, Charlotte Mendelson thought her grandparents' native Hungarian sounded ridiculous. But now her tiny vocabulary keeps their memory alive.
My grandmother was fearless. Yet if I asked her about the past, she would start crying. What kind of monster would have questioned her? So I resisted and now it is too late. She and her husband, my maternal grandparents, were Hungarians. Or so I thought. They spoke Hungarian, impenetrably, to each other. Even after 50 years in Britain, their accents remained so strong that kindly strangers would direct them to tourist attractions.

At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival National Mall: June 26-30 & July 3-7

There are approximately thirteen million Hungarians in Central Europe some ten million of them living in Hungary, a thousand-year-old country that is slightly smaller than Indiana. Calling themselves Magyars, these people speak a unique language and maintain highly distinctive traditions in music, dance, costume, crafts, gastronomy, and more.

The Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will highlight the vitality of Hungary's cultural heritage in these areas. It will bring to the National Mall in Washington highly skilled masters and apprentices from rural Central Europe who maintain the traditional knowledge acquired in their native environments. The Festival program will also bring musicians, dancers, and artisans from more urban settings who have revived many of these older traditions to make them part of their daily lives.

The Hungarian Puli Space initiative, an official contestant of the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP), started to build its presence in the US. Tibor Pacher, Founder and CEO of Puli Space Technologies Ltd, introduced the most exciting race of our days, and Team Puli's participation therein to California folks.

Tibor gave a presentations at the Spring Networking Lunch of The Hungarian American Chamber of Commerce in the US in Redwood City, at Twitter in San Francisco, and discussed extensively with Laszlo, Puli's plans to be part of the bright future of space industry.

Bundling Hungarian talents and their innovation capabilities Puli will be at the forefront of the Moon 2.0 race and the utilization of the Moon's and space resources.

April 9, 2013 - AHEC meeting in Silicon Valley to welcome member Tibor Pacher, leader of our main project sponsored by AHEC in 2013

Please join the members and friends of the HUNGARIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE US, SPRING NETWORKING LUNCH
To welcome and hear a presentation by Dr. Tibor Pacher, Founder and CEO of the Hungarian PULI Space Initiative

Dr. Tibor Pacher was born in Hungary. He now shares his time mainly between Hungary and Germany. Trained as a physicist (PhD., Heidelberg 1991 s.c.l.), during his academic career, he worked on different topics of General Relativity, Cosmology (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) and Quantum Chemistry (University of Heidelberg) as well as on ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) mission (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg).

In 2006, he initiated the organization Peregrinus Interstellar, dedicated to the topic of interstellar travel: The PI Club . Dr. Parcher also runs the project Faces from Earth , which focuses on creating interstellar message artifacts to be carried on future deep space missions, and MiniSpaceWorld , which aims at the creation of a big, lively scale-model layout for Spaceflight and Astronomy.

The Susan Polgar Foundation , Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supported by charitable donations that was established by GM Susan Polgar , Winner of 4 Women's World Chess Championships and the first woman in history to break the gender barrier in chess. The Foundation is the proud sponsor of the National Invitational for Girls, National Open Championship for Girls , World Open Championship for Girls, All-Star Girl's Chess Team, NY City Mayor's Cup Invitational, and Tri-State Scholastic Chess Challenge. Further information at www.susanpolgarfoundation.org

March 9 , 2013 -
Invitation for the
Commemoration of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution and War of Liberation

PLAYA VISTA, CA (December 13, 2012) - The X PRIZE Foundation and LEGO Group announced today the winners of MoonBots 2012: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge. This third annual competition challenged teams of students ages 9 to 17 to design, program and build robots that simulate lunar missions similar to those required to win the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, a global incentivized competition to further the commercial exploration of space.

The Grand Prize winner, Team HungaroBots from Hungary, earned a VIP trip to test their creations at the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems in Hilo, Hawaii. The team, comprised of 16- and 17-year-olds from the town of Sopron, Hungary, was introduced to the competition by the Google Lunar X PRIZE team, Puli Space.

The runners-up were Team Incredibots from Ohio, Team Apollo 19 from California, and Team Titanium Springboks from South Africa, all of whom will receive complimentary registrations into the FIRST® robotics league.
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January 2 , 2013 - AHEC Member Julie Kantor wrote it for Huffington Post

Lena just bought the latest iPhone 5 last week and had eleven more gifts to unwrap. She luckily was up to date on her mortgage payment but her husband Samuel was just laid off from his job and they had a big private school bill payment due in two weeks.Putting pen to paper she calculated her mortgage, Pepco bill for electricity, Comcast internet and cable, three trips to Safeway for monthly groceries, life insurance, two cell phones, two payments on leased cars, water bill, gas bill, you get the picture... Lena was out of cash from her bi-weekly pay stub before she even got to the private school bill, date nights and paying the housekeeper."I saved a fair amount of money in my 401(k) plan, but that is suppose to be for retirement," she told me, tears falling on the wooden breakfast table. "And besides, if I withdraw any amount before the age of 59, I will be taxed around 20 percent or more. That's too expensive. I can't do this by myself," she said.
I could relate to Lena, I had been in a similar situation years before where I was living paycheck to paycheck and not saving enough for a rainy day. Today was Lena and Samuel's rainy day and they were both feeling naturally upset. "Samuel is looking for a job and asking his parents for a loan. I am confident he will get a good job but it could take a few months in this job market," said Lena. We both lamented that we chose shopping and professional optimism over creating a three month reserve for these tough moments in life. I vowed at that moment to keep enjoying my iPhone 4 and not upgrade to the coveted "5" as Lena had until I built another two month reserve.
I had just returned the night before from seeing my father overseas (in Hawaii) and my talk with Lena really made me reflect on how my parents have managed their resources and retired well in a time that so many people are financially challenged.
My father escaped to America in 1956 from Hungary and he came here with no money but a big desire to be free and make a life for himself and the family he would eventually have. His childhood was filled with real-life nightmares and survival, but he has persevered and has become one of my great heroes and mentors. To me he exemplifies the American Dream.
Walking through his home in upcountry Maui I was overcome with memories every turn I made and every cabinet I opened. "That was the blue mug Dad made espresso in when I was in elementary school"; "This is the paper mache candy chicken Dad brought home from a business trip in Peru. We would walk down Wisconsin Avenue and fill it with carefully selected candy from the Coffee, Tea and Spice shop in Georgetown," I shared with my husband Marc.
I walked my 10-year-old daughter through the house and we pulled out holiday decorations that had seen better years, but were carefully preserved since the '70s. My dad put some Mozart on and I had to pull out my camera to take a picture of him showing our daughter what a record actually looks like. It was the first record that she has ever seen and I recognize the record player and stereo equipment from at least 1980.
My dad no longer lives in Virginia but the furniture, the paintings, the dishes all take me back to that period in time when he was working and thoughtful with his investments. I only get to see my dad once a year as he lives so far away and I am a bit obsessed with a start-up in D.C.
I co-founded: Barrel of Jobs .
Friends tease me that I have parents who have great, amazing real estate overseas but little do they know I don't take advantage of it nearly as much as I would like. This trip we talked a lot about managing money and the steps he took to retired to a dream life in Maui. He doesn't shop a lot and when he does, its usually for high-quality food at Costco, travel to Europe, or a new tech gadget that he will keep for years. He proudly bought the iPhone 5 with a two-year plan but then proactively sold the "4" on Craigslist in an impressive break-even deal. My stepmother is amazing at recycling and re-purposing everything. We delighted every day in eating guava, mango and passion fruit jams she made from her own garden.
I used to wonder why Dad would wear the same Lacoste shirt for a decade or two when he was in a position to buy four new ones, but now I know. He buys high quality and does not look at purchases as disposable like Lena and I do. For the first time it really dawned on me that my dad's sensibilities and plan works and that if I put away money and stopped coming home with C-Wonder, Apple and Chicos' Bags, maybe I could retire someday well too.
I wanted to share all this with Lena but decided it best to wait until things got better. Maybe not buying the latest Samsung 50-inch flat screen is the answer. Maybe ongoing retail therapy is really a recipe for working hard until you're 82.
I sent Samuel three job listings from our site with some great tech companies in the DC area that I admire, WeddingWire, Venga and Clarabridge to see if they might perk his interest. I also sent him good ones at SmartCEO magazine and the DC Chamber of Commerce.
That night I kissed Justine goodnight and noticed in her arms she was snuggling with a well-worn Putsy, a Siberian husky dog that my father bought me when I was nine years old at FAO Schwartz in New York City. I begged for an hour and finally my Dad gave in. Putsy was one of three stuffed animals at my dad's home and by far my favorite. He gave it to Justine when we visited and I noticed that over the past few days all her other four dozen animals have been relegated to her bookshelves: 34-year-old Putsy won the coveted spot as 'first animal' with his head next to hers on her Scooby-Doo pillowcase.Julie Kantor blogs weekly for The Huffington Post. Her full author archives can be found at www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-kantor .

On behalf of American Hungarian Executive Circle, it is my greatest pleasure to invite you to the Budapest general meeting to be held in Szatyor Bár, Budapest (Bartok Bela ut 36) on 14th of July, 2012 Saturday at 5 pm.

The meeting will cover various issues and initiatives like the introduction and familiarization with the members' backgrounds and professional works, and possible methods to develop linkages and potentially beneficial connections.
Presentation of Martin Retai about pocketguide smartphone city guide application product will also be exhibited.

AHEC will make its best efforts to make the meeting an open and interesting forum for sharing experiences and developing mutual cooperation. Therefore we highly appreciate your presence and your active participation, so the meeting will be a worthy one.

studies by ahec

AHEC member Stephen O' Connor gave a speech at an annual conference in Brussels prior to the 3rd annual Capitalist Ball. The Ball was co-hosted by The Stockholm Network and the Center for New Europe (CNE). The Stockholm network is a London based umbrella organization for all free-market think tanks from Ireland to Russia. (theres quite a few actually maybe as high as 75+. The MD is Ms Helen Disney. A sharp woman and former Economist journalist. Tim Evans is the MD of CNE, Brussels’s first Conservative think tank founded only about 7 years ago?! Tim describes himself as a Narco - Capitalist! This year we honored Ayn Rand and her portrait was all over the place. About 400+ people attended this invitation only event. More>>

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deal-making opportunities among AHEC members. AHEC membership
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and generating business opportunities for each other all over
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